Scott Walden divides his time between New York and Newfoundland, photographing and teaching philosophy in both locations. The images in the Unsettled series will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, during the summer and fall 2001. He can be reached via email at scott.walden@nyu.edu
Scott Walden
Scott Walden: Unsettled: Photographs of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities
In Newfoundland during the 1960s you could look out over the ocean and see houses floating by. But natural disasters weren’t the explanation for such odd sights, governments were. For soon after Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 the federal and provincial governments colluded to centralize the island’s population, moving people from isolated fishing villages to […]